Speaker
Ms
Afroditi Papadopoulou
(Graduate Student MIT)
Description
Neutrino physics is entering an age of precision measurements. A
number of experiments have firmly established the existence of
neutrino oscillations and determined the corresponding squared mass
differences and mixing angles. These measurements have provided
unambiguous evidence that neutrinos have non-vanishing masses.
The large θ 13 mixing angle will enable future experiments to search
for leptonic CP violation in appearance mode, thus addressing one of
the outstanding fundamental problems of particle physics. These
searches will involve high precision determinations of the oscillation
parameters, which in turn require a deep understanding of neutrino
interactions with the atomic nuclei comprising the detectors.
In view of the achieved and planned experimental accuracies, the
treatment of nuclear effects is indeed regarded as one of the main
sources of systematic uncertainty. In this context, a key role is
played by the availability of a wealth of electron scattering data. In
this analysis, data from the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab have
been used to test the accuracy of the neutrino energy reconstruction
methods against the predictions of the commonly used GENIE
neutrino event generator.
Primary author
Ms
Afroditi Papadopoulou
(Graduate Student MIT)